I find it worrying how easy it is for anyone to actually dabble in taking their own photos and videos. Then the permanence of it remaining on the internet where anyone can find it, even relatively tame stuff.

The one night of messing about/experimenting with the camera phone/webcam by a 16, 18, 20, 25 year old could have impact further on in their life. It's not just the domain of Paris Hilton and her ex-boyfriend, the impact could probably be greater for the normal person as they don't have £millions in the bank to fall back on.

For some it might be a well thought out choice and good luck to them. Others may not have even considered what might happen.

Hammerite, currently it's difficult to find these videos for a specific person. Hopefully by the time search engines start letting loose socialnetwork backed facial recognition on the general internet and allowing people to search openly for content depicting someone, it will be painless to bring law enforcement to bear on the administrators of the server, or removal of websites from search engines. Maybe.

Scuzz, that's true. But all it takes is for someone to get spotted by someone who recognises them and it gets sent round all sorts. Viral style.

I remember someone sending me an e-mail saying "check this out" it with a link to a series of photographs of someone we went to university with (they'd clearly thought about it though as they were proper studio/modelled photos). I suppose it takes a certain amount of self policing as in some circles people wouldn't want to explain how they came to find such vids and photos!

I found it an exact example of the reasons that I used to try and say that I was ok with porn. Because men would always say you're a prude if you didn't engage with it or if you voiced any sort of objection to it, as a woman, my reaction to it was always trivialised and that comment was an example of the same - subtext "if you don't find smut hilarious it's your problem, you're a prude/can't take a joke"

I don't find an industry that specializes in and promotes the degradation of women and the reduction of women to mindless, voiceless sex objects (and men, for that matter in some cases) funny in any way shape or form, and I'm not going to apologise for my "lack of sense of humour" on the subject - I'm quite ok with it thank you. Quite happy to keep my sense of humour for other topics of conversation and debate.

It falls on you to educate them that what they might be watching could be suicidally desperate people who've run out of life choices doing uncomfortable, degrading acts and deadening themselves to emotion and feeling through drug abuse.

Oddly/interestingly (or not), although I'm not anti porn, I am very anti scantily clad girls drapped over cars/fishing gear/guns/computers/bocing rings/etc. Forget demeaning to women, I find it insulting to men. Do manufactures and marketers thing all us men are really that sad? I'm so anti it, I won't buy a product that's been advertised that way.

I remember someone sending me an e-mail saying "check this out" it with a link to a series of photographs of someone we went to university with (they'd clearly thought about it though as they were proper studio/modelled photos). I suppose it takes a certain amount of self policing as in some circles people wouldn't want to explain how they came to find such vids and photos!

i remember way back when a mate of ours turned up at the George and Dragon with a copy of Razzle/Escort/other trashy vänkmag. he turned to the readers wives section and there was our barmaid....